#Gospel of St. Luke

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"And going up to him, bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine: and setting him upon his own beast, brought him to an inn, and took care of him."

Gospel According to St Luke 10:34 Douay-Rheims Bible.

Artwork: Cyprián Majerník, The Good Samaritan (1940).

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Links to Gospels below:

Gospel According to Matthew

Gospel According to Mark

Gospel According to Luke

Gospel According to John

*not adding Acts of the Apostles b/c it's after Jesus' Resurrection

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October 18 is the Feast Day of St Luke. He appears here at the start of the Gospel that bears his name in the Evangelium of Judith of Flanders (Cantorbéry, 1065). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, ms M.709, f° 77v, 29,3 × 19,1 cm. :: [Robert Scott Horton]

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Night Surrender to Praise at Dawn – Nov. 16, 2021

“In the middle of the night I hold hands with trust and surrender to the One who sees without a light… My prayer travels deep into my soul space, into the essence of my being.

Rising from sleep, I raise high the chalice of my life. Dressed in robes of joyful anticipation, I enter this day with an open heart. This is the awakening hour. This is the hour of praise. ‘O medicine of dawn; O healing drink of morning!’ Offering both words and silence, I join in the dance of creation.”

–Macrina Wiederkehr, Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day, p. 29 and 47

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St. Luke the Evangelist - Healer, Historian, Iconographer

This blog post offers a comprehensive exploration of the life and significance of Saint Luke the Evangelist. It delves into his diverse roles as a healer, historian, and iconographer, shedding light on his contributions to early Christian literature and.

In the name of God the Father, Christ Jesus His Son and the Holy Spirit, One True God. Amen Dear brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus IntroductionLife and MinistryNew Testament ReferencesGospel of LukeThe Universal SaviorParables of Mercy and ForgivenessThe Good SamaritanThe Ministry of HealingWomen in Luke’s GospelLuke – As a HistorianLuke – As an Artist Introduction On October 18, the…

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The Ascent to God

Photo by Jakub Stekla on Unsplash

Gospel: Matthew 5:1-12 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time | USCCB

Because God is merciful, it has been His will that those who love Him and are willing to put Him above the things of this world may receive even in this life the two hundredfold that He promised. Consequently, we have the Beatitudes which Jesus preached on the hill.

And even though we see them through the shadows of our human imperfection which means that we are not able to fully comprehend while we are here in this valley of tears called earth, the Beatitudes are a roadmap towards reaching eternal happiness.

The Beatitudes can be a source of consolation for those who hunger for love and thirst for happiness.

The Beatitudes are a whisper, a breath of new life for souls who have longed for a word of hope, if they are willing to hear it, it can be found in the Beatitudes. They are a breath of fresh air, to inspire us to live in those highest places that God has for those who follow Him, letting us be carried away by Him to the highest spiritual places, unafraid because “He will raise you up on eagles' wings, He will shelter you with his pinions, and under his wings you may take refuge” (Ps. 91)

The Beatitudes are an ascending chain of mountains where every peak is a step which gets us closer and closer to God.

Each of the Beatitudes is, in the words of Saint Thomas Aquinas, “something perfect and excellent—a peak unto itself, and at the same time it is the beginning of the happiness to come even in this life.”

All of the Beatitudes are noble ideal peaks, but there is a constant ascension from the beginning all the way to the very last one, that promises us heaven itself.

It begins with the freedom of detachment, or letting go that spiritual poverty gives us, then the cleansing waterfall of mournful tears; after which comes the fullness of justice and the gentleness of mercy. And there, very close to heaven, there is the light of purity, the peace that only love can give and the ectasis of martyrdom.

When Jesus let His lips be opened to reveal to us the mysteries of the Beatitudes, He painted for us a landscape of the spiritual ascent towards that happiness AND the qualities that must be possessed by those who aspire to ascend the stairway that leads to heaven where the Beatitudes lead.

Through the Beatitudes, Jesus was painting a self-portrait. A portrait of Himself AND the portrait of the qualities He desires in each of His disciples. Jesus is poor in spirit and mourns and weeps over His people, Jesus is meek and humble of heart. Jesus hungers and thirsts for righteousness. Jesus desires mercy and is pure and clean of heart. Jesus seeks peace and turns the other cheek when his beard was plucked and when he was spat on. He is persecuted for announcing the Kingdom of God is at hand.

The first step for him or her who desires the blessedness described by the Beatitudes is to be willing to sincerely, totally and completely give up the false and passing joys of this world.

For over twenty-one centuries, the antidote against the frivolous life and the misleading happiness, like honors, wealth, the material things that can be suddenly lost; the antidote to these frivolous things, has been found in the pages of the gospels:

We are cautioned in Luke 6: Woe to you, who now receive all your consolation.

“But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. But woe to you who are filled now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will grieve and weep. Woe to you when all speak well of you,…” (Lk 6:24-26) Unfortunately, many people don’t take the time to learn how to read the Gospels and what this warning means. They become fascinated by the things of the world and no longer take time to find out what the Word of God means in our lives. That is why there are less and less people willing to be happy.

It is hard to take our love away from the things that don’t deserve our love like wealth and the things that can be taken by others like cars, and anything that is outside of us or anything that others can manipulate like our reputation, our prestige.

It is hard to take our love away from those things, to give it all to Jesus. Those things do deserve our attention, yes. They do deserve an important place, but love? No!

Happiness, real happiness is peace of mind. Real happiness is being at peace. Often, when Jesus first greeted people he told them, “Do not be afraid”. Another way of saying “do not be afraid” would be, “be without anxiety”, or “be at peace”, or “be free from anxiety and fear” which is being at peace, therefore, real happiness, is a sense of not being afraid, not being anxious, being at peace.

So, happiness can’t be found in the things purely of this world.

The Kingdom of God is inside of you. Because the Kingdom of God can’t be found in things. It can’t be found in food, or in drink, it is found in justice, in peace and the joy of the Holy Spirit that we can only find through Christ.

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Reading the Ancient Magic Book Pages

I propose to you today a short analysis of the sections of text on the pages of the Ancient Magic book we find below the restricted section.

High-res images of the book’s pages have been shared by a kind soul. Here they all are:

I was working on a completely different post when I realised that the text on the last 2 pages was easily readable and written in Latin. So I just did a quick search and discovered that these are verses from the Vulgate (4th century translation of the Bible in Latin), more precisely from the Gospel of Luke from the New Testament.

A bit more research and I could find exactly which source they got this text from: the Book of Kells, a Celtic Gospel book written in Latin and illuminated in the Insular style (a combination of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon styles). The precise origins of the Book of Kells are debated but many believe it was created around the year 800 at the monastery founded by St Colum Cille on Iona Island in western Scotland.

Here I put side by side the pages of the Ancient Magic book and the pages from the Books of Kells where the text is from (folio 204r and 275r):

The verses they used are Luke 22:23

Et ipsi coeperunt quaerere inter se quis esset ex eis qui hoc facturus esset.

Which translates to:

And they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing.

And on the second page, Luke 4:8-14

Et respondens Jesus, dixit illi: Scriptum est: Dominum Deum tuum adorabis, et illi soli servies. Et duxit illum in Jerusalem, et statuit eum super pinnam templi, et dixit illi: Si Filius Dei es, mitte te hinc deorsum. Scriptum est enim quod angelis suis mandavit de te, ut conservent te: et quia in manibus tollent te, ne forte offendas ad lapidem pedem tuum. Et respondens Jesus, ait illi: Dictum est: Non tentabis Dominum Deum tuum. Et consummata omni tentatione, diabolus recessit ab illo, usque ad tempus. Et regressus est Jesus in virtute Spiritus in Galilaeam, et fama exiit per universam regionem de illo.

Which translates to:

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence: For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.

I’m not christian and don’t know much about the Bible so I have no idea why they chose these particular verses. Maybe someone more educated than me will be able to chime in. My hunch is that these verses were just chosen at random from old manuscripts that the artists for the game were using as reference for the art style.

Now, since I was on a roll, I also looked at the text on the other pages. Pages 1 and 3 have some text written in some old form of Icelandic (figured that out from the few words I could sort of read on those pages). So I started looking into old Icelandic manuscripts but it took me a ridiculously long time to find the exact source the text is from! I was starting to go mad but here it is! It’s from an illustration of the Prose Edda found in the Icelandic manuscript ÍB 299 4to., in particular the illustration of the god Týr presented as Mars (folio 60r).

They took the short text in the little box and copy/pasted it mosaic style to give the illusion of the full page of text but you can see it’s just short sections that repeat over and over on both pages.

(To note: this manuscript is from 1764 so it’s sort of anachronistic for them to use this source for an Ancient Magic book that already existed in the Keepers time, meaning the Ancient Magic book is from the 15th century or older.)

Týr is one of the principal war gods in Norse mythology (alongside Odin and Thor) but he also presides over justice and the law. Latin texts often identified him as Mars (hence the subject of the illustration).

I could not find any transcription or translation of the text on the image, I could only decipher some words here and there such as «sigir hielldu» which google translate tells me could mean «victories held» in Icelandic. A bit further down there is «orrustu guð» which could mean «god of war». So it seems to be a short description of the god Týr and at the end there are roman numerals that identify the section in the Prose Edda where the story of Týr can be found.

Again, I can’t really see how this text makes particular sense in the context of the Ancient Magic book, probably just placeholder text from some of the sources they were studying as inspiration.

There is one last book page, but the text on this one is so blurred I didn’t even try to decipher it. Although I do note that the artist has traced over some letters which are: W S M I(?) I(?) I(?) Z N R(?) P(?) G W Q O U(?) H W R(?)

Don’t know… some of them are hard to read or could be not from the Latin alphabet. Again, I just can’t make sense of that. There are not enough vowels for it to be an anagram of an English or Latin phrase so… what else? I leave this mystery to others with more powerful brains than mine!

Anyway, this is it! Not really much to say about this but I think other people are also planning on looking into these book pages so maybe these findings can help them out!

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Saint Martha of Bethany

Feast Day: July 29

Patronage: butlers; cooks; dietitians; domestic servants; homemakers; hotel-keepers; housemaids; housewives; innkeepers; laundry workers; maids; manservant; servants; servers; single laywomen

St. Martha of Bethany is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem. She was witness to Jesus' resurrection and of her brother, Lazarus.

Luke 10:41   And the Lord answering, said to her: Martha, Martha, thou art careful, and art troubled about many things.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

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Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Ukrainian-born Russian) Resurrection of Jairus' daughter, 1871 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg The raising of Jairus' daughter is a reported miracle of Jesus that occurs in the synoptic Gospels, where it is interwoven with the account of the healing of a bleeding woman. The narratives can be found in Mark 5:21–43, Matthew 9:18–26 and Luke 8:40–56.

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"And he said: Young man, I say to thee, arise. And he that was dead, sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother."

September 1 2024, Latin Mass, Gospel of St. Luke 7:14-15

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The Return of the Prodigal Son (1669) 🎨 Rembrandt 🏛️ The State Hermitage Museum 📍 St. Petersburg, Russia

In the Gospel According to Luke (15: 11-32), Christ relates the parable of the prodigal son. A son asks his father for his inheritance and leaves the parental home, only to fritter away all his wealth. Arriving at last at sickness and poverty, he returns to his father's house. The old man is blinded by tears as he forgives his son, just as God forgives all those who repent. This parable in Rembrandt's treatment is addressed to the heart of everyone: "We should be glad: for this son was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

This whole work is dominated by the idea of the victory of love, goodness and charity. The event is treated as the highest act of human wisdom and spiritual nobility, and it takes place in absolute silence and stillness. The drama and depth of feeling are expressed in the figures of both father and son, with all the emotional precision with which Rembrandt was endowed. The broad, sketchy brushstrokes of the artist's late style accentuate the emotion and intensity of this masterly painting.

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Happy feast of Saint Luke the evangelist ☦❤

Born in Antioch, he witnessed Christ's miracles and listened to His preaching, and decided to follow Him. He was one of the 70 apostoles and was sent to spread the gospel. He wrote the Gospel at the request of other christians in his sixties. He is considered the founder of icon painting, painted three icons of Theotokos, who he met, and icons of St. apostoles Peter and Paul. At 84., idolaters hanged him for Christs sake in city of Thebes in Boeotia. His relicts were transfered to Constantinople during the reign of emperor Constantius.

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One Minute Reflection – 17 August – “The Month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary” – St Hyacinth OP (1185-1257) ) Confessor – Sirach 31:8-11; Luke 12:35-40 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/ “You also must be ready, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” – Luke 12:40 REFLECTION – “Watch, for you do not know the day nor the hour.” Like many other scriptural texts, this admonition is addressed to all of us, although it is formulated, in such a way that it would seem to concern only Christ’s immediate audience. We can all apply it to ourselves because the Last Day and the End of the World will come for each of us, on the day we depart this present life. This means, we must make sure we die in the state in which we wish to appear on the Day of Judgement. Bearing this in mind, each of us should guard against being led astray and failing to keep watch, otherwise the Day of the Lord’s return may take us unawares. If the last day of our life finds us unprepared, then we shall be unprepared on that Day too!” – St Paschasius Radbertus OSB (785–865) Abbot of Corbie, Theoplogian, Father of the Church (Commentary on Saint Matthew’s Gospel 11, 24) His Life here: https://anastpaul.com/2019/04/26/saint-of-the-day-26-april-saint-paschasius-radbertus-785-865/

(via One Minute Reflection – 17 August – Preparing for Death – AnaStpaul)

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

NOEL ROOKE

In the mid 1920s, the Golden Cockerel Press embarked on producing a number of small quartos with stories taken from the Bible. One of the first of these volumes was The Birth of Christ with text taken from the Gospel of St. Luke and published in 1925. At this time, wood engraver and fine-press printer Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) was proprietor of the press, and his old teacher from the Central School of Art and Design, Noel Rooke (1881-1953), provided these engravings for the book. Rooke was a seminal figure in the revival of wood engraving, and both Rooke and Gibbings were among the ten original co-founders of Britain's Society of Wood Engravers.

Although he was a little older than Gibbings, Rooke's style was more traditional than Gibbings's, and in his work he provided a link between the fine presses of the previous century and the work of contemporary printers. The Birth of Christ, printed in an edition of 370 copies, was well-regarded when it came out. Bernard Newdigate (1869-1944), manager of the Shakespeare Head Press, noted in a review in the London Mercury, "I like this little book better than any other from the Golden Cockerel Press I have yet seen."

Rooke was also responsible for the book's layout and design, which when compared to Golden Cockerel's other Biblical works of this period, was as Roderick Cave and Sarah Manson put it, "a throwback, an oddity." We don't know how Gibbings felt about it, but although Gibbings and Rooke remained friends for the rest of their lives, Rooke never illustrated another book for Golden Cockerel.

We enjoy the engravings and the book, however. Our copy is another donation of the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick, who maintained an interest in Christian theology.

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THE DESCRIPTION OF THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS The Name Above All Names Feast Day: January 3

"Praised be Jesus Christ!" -Enchiridion Indulgentiarum

In connection with the circumcision and the naming of the Holy Child on the first of January, the Catholic faithful celebrate the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus.

Jesus is a Hebrew name which means, 'God Saves.'

In the Gospel of Luke, the archangel Gabriel revealed the holy name to Mary, when he announced: 'You will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus.'

In the Acts of the Apostles, in order to be saved, we must believe in the name of Jesus, as the apostle Peter said: 'There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.'

For this reason, all liturgical prayers conclude with the words: 'Through Our Lord Jesus Christ.'

Perhaps the greatest promoter of the Holy Name of Jesus was St. Bernardine of Siena, who coined the Latin Christogram, 'IHS', which stands for Iesus Hominum Salvator, which means 'Jesus, savior of men.'

At the end of his sermons, he usually displayed the IHS on a tablet in gold letters, and would ask the faithful to kneel in adoration. The devotion to the Holy Name became so popular, that the IHS was inscribed in churches, sacred vestments, and on the Eucharistic bread.

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Let HIM Find You

Photo by Daniel Jensen on Unsplash

1st Reading: 2 Timothy 1:1-8, Gospel: Luke 10:1-9 Memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, bishops | USCCB

The First Reading mentions, Timothy and Titus. Two of St. Paul’s closest co-workers and friends, St. Paul speaks to Timothy as a third-generation believer. He refers to the faith that came first to live in his grandmother Lois, and then in his mother Eunice and then finally in Timothy himself. Apparently, then, Timothy’s faith was born in his home, thanks to his grandmother and mother.

The same can be said for many of us. We owe our Christian faith to the faith of our parents and grandparents. However, we can’t say that of St. Paul. His parents and grandparents were Jewish. For St. Paul, it was his encounter with the risen Lord that brought him to the faith in Jesus, most probably leaving him in a situation of conflict with his parents and grandparents.

Both Timothy’s and Paul’s experiences reminds us that Jesus can touch the lives of people through the faith of family members, but He can also touch their lives in other, less conventional ways.

Jesus is always seeking us out in one way or another. In the Gospel reading, He reached out to the people of His time by sending out a very large group of seventy-two disciples with the message, “The Kingdom of God is at hand for you.” And the advice Jesus gave to the seventy two disciples tells us that Jesus was aware that this mission He was sending them on to touch the lives of a bigger number of people spread through a larger territory than He had been on with his disciples would not always be welcome. He told them, “I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.”

But regardless of whether people accepted or rejected Him, the message didn’t change, “The Kingdom of God is at hand for you” Jesus said, because Jesus is always very close to us.

He never tires of seeking us out. Let Him find you.

No matter how ungrateful, how, lazy, how little interest we show in Him, because, again his message doesn’t change, “The Kingdom of God is already near us.” Open yourself to His merciful love and let Him find you.